Nothing says legitimate organic Right Wing uprising in the UK like a meaningless petition that gets retweeted by a foreign billionaire with 200 million followers on the platform he controls. But wait til you hear where the signatures are coming from! 🧵1/10

We have been warning about this for years. There is so much evidence of what the humanities bring to the economy and society. See 🧵English Association University English IES Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) theguardian.com/education/2024…

At first I thought the photo was of two vicars as it looked like they were wearing dog collars and clerical shirts. Trendy vicar is an odd look at the best of times, but especially on the anti-woke brigade 🤷‍♀️

Ok. Í get why y’all are raving about “Conclave”

Delightful thread 🧵🧵😄

Love the cover and the book!

‘ello Shakespeare Association of America & The Renaissance Society of America…just want to double-check: if presenting at both in March, you need to be members of both organisations but register fit both conferences via one of you? #DividedLoyalties

Who fancies joining Dr Katie Bank 🍍 and me to examine sound and the senses in Bristol in July?

I’m seeing all the replies saying how lovely this is, but all I can think of are the very obvious safeguarding issues and how the airline have failed in their duty of care.

#OTD 15th December 1660, #Milton is released from the Tower of London. Earlier that year he had been in hiding, an order for his arrest was issued, and his books were called in and burnt by the public executioner. He escaped the death penalty but was liable to assassination.

Look what arrived in the post today! 😻😻😻🔕📣🔔🔇🔊🔈📢🔉

Happy New - HOW ARE WE ALREADY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY INTO THE MILLENNIUM - Year to ALL celebrate. May your year be as silvery as the 25 years implies ❤️

Come one, come all!

Who fancies participating in a #SRSlyGood seminar at #RenSoc25 (2-5 July)? We've extended the deadline for signing up to 31 Jan so that the late crowd won't feel miffed to have missed it! Those who are presenting at the conference in a panel can also participate in a seminar.

Seminars are: ¶ Mechanick Exercises in the History of the Book: Practice Based & Collaborative Research into Early Modern Print Cultures. Seminar Leaders:John McTague & Rhiannon Daniels ¶ Renaissance Islands & Colonial Thinking. Seminar Leaders: Matthew Dimmock & Andrew Hadfield

¶ Shakespeare from Below. Led by Derek Dunne & Kim Gilchrist ¶ Sound & the Senses. Led by Katie Bank & Rachel Willie ¶ “The air choked with fens”: Socio-ecologies of breathing & air in early modern cross-cultural encounters. Led by: Semih Çelik & Naya Tsentourou

For full details and to sign-up, see rensoc.org.uk/rensoc25-semin… Come one, come all!

Good bye twitter, it used to be quite nice here but we know that the platforms we use are not neutral and we cannot continue on this one. Find us on bluesky: bsky.app/profile/srsren… Thanks to Royal Historical Society for setting the good example.

We need to make some homemade Welsh cakes and send them to the Japanese Embassy. The shop-bought ones just aren’t the same.

I’m not on here much these days but hoping back to say how much I’m looking forward to this — come and hear more about Mariana’s terrific scholarship!